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This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Publish address is a wildcard address. falling back to first non-loopback ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: network.
Log Context
Log “publish address: {{}} is a wildcard address; falling back to first non-loopback: {{}}” classname is NetworkService.java.
We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
} // wildcard address; probably set by network.host if (address.isAnyLocalAddress()) { InetAddress old = address; address = NetworkUtils.getFirstNonLoopbackAddresses()[0]; logger.warn("publish address: {{}} is a wildcard address; falling back to first non-loopback: {{}}"; NetworkAddress.format(old); NetworkAddress.format(address)); } } return address; }
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